Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast, sometimes it's better when you get weird, especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink, introducing new Dr Pepper Zero

with the same blend of 23 unique flavors,

it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper,

but with zero sugar and zero calories.

It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on.

Weird. But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper Zero. Oh my God, it's a little fried bug.

It's disappointingly great in that I was excited

to try cricket and be able to say like I'm struggling to get beyond the

cricketness of this cricket but it just tastes like what does it taste like it just like like,

like, um,

he's a little like popcorn.

Do people say that?

Yeah,

A lot of people say popcorn.

It is still slightly alarming that it looks like a shriveled dark brown fried bug with all the limbs cut off.

The legs are taken off because, you know, early market research,

people didn't like how the legs got stuck in their teeth.

Uh-oh, I see a stray leg, or is that an antenna?

That's an ava-positor?

Yeah, that's a female egg-laying thing.

So yeah, there I was eating cricket off a positor in a converted warehouse behind a Burlington Code Factory near San Francisco.

I was in the headquarters of a company called Tiny Farms.

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